Scalable CSS for Developers

CSS is a frustration point for developers and engineers and a stumbling block for startups. Less is more in CSS, but less is hard to achieve. Learn how to write CSS that scales to thousands of pages or millions of users and results in leaner code, which is easier to both write and maintain. No matter what your JavaScript library of choice (JQuery, YUI, etc), learning the nuts and bolts of CSS will bring sanity to your development process. Learn how to leverage open source projects.

In this hands-on session, Nicole explores strategies for getting the UI under control. The session covers the nuts & bolts of CSS and includes a guided debugging session and live demo.

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Nicole Sullivan

Stubbornella

Nicole is an evangelist, front-end performance consultant, CSS Ninja, and author. She started the Object-Oriented CSS open source project, which answers the question: how do you scale CSS for millions of visitors or thousands of pages? She also consulted with the W3C for their beta redesign, and is the co-creator of Smush.it, an image optimization service in the cloud. She is passionate about CSS, web standards, and scalable front-end architecture for large commercial websites.

Comments

Michael Palmer

11/21/2009 8:28pm EST

Well-presented and very informative.

Kevin Logan

11/19/2009 8:30pm EST

Nicole’s presentation was great – it contained lots of real practical advice for structuring style sheets in a logical method to prevent some common errors and problems (Spaghetti Code…) She also discussed some code that she has developed for templates and grids to help implement her methods – looking forward to trying them out. Hope the slides get posted somewhere soon…